Pictures, the film is a remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name, which is in turn based on the short story

"Floating Water" by Koji Suzuki. A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a

run-down apartment building. Adding further drama to their plight, they are targeted by the ghost of former resident.

1909:

Publisher and Disney Legend Mario Gentilini is born in Luzzara, Italy. As director of

"Topolino" magazine, he popularized Mickey Mouse throughout his home land. First studying at the Accademia di

Brera in Milan, he became a well-known figurative painter with work featured in exhibitions in Paris and Rome. While teaching high school, Gentilini was offered the opportunity to fill in for an artist on leave from Arnoldo Mondadori

Editore. While at the prestigious publishing firm, he learned of "Topolino" magazine, which the company had recently acquired the rights to publish. Gentilini became enchanted by Disney's mouse and as a result, quit teaching and

began a new career in publishing and retouching drawings for "Topolino." Nine years later, in 1945, he was promoted

to its editor. Under his leadership, "Topolino" was transformed from a monthly into a weekly publication featuring

original Disney stories by classically-trained Italian artists.

1913:

Radio & voice actor Bill Thompson, the voices of Mr. Smee in Peter Pan, King

Hubert in Sleeping Beauty, and Uncle Waldo in The Aristocats, is born in Terre

Haute, Indiana. His Disney credits also include Alice in Wonderland, Melody, Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, Hooked Bear, The Story of Anyburg U.S.A., and How to Have an Accident in the Home (released on

this day in 1956). Thompson's most famous voice creation is the mush-mouthed cartoon hound, Droopy.

1926:

Disney Legend Horst Koblischek is born in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia.

Working in character merchandising, he created the Sport Goofy Trophy and negotiate Disney's first

television contract in Germany.

1938:

Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Good Scouts is released. Donald acts as scoutmaster for

his three nephews for a nature hike through the wilderness. The second Disney cartoon released to feature

Donald Duck's three nephews - Huey, Dewey and Louie, it will be nominated for an Academy Award.

1956:

The Disney animated short How to Have an Accident in the Home, featuring Donald Duck and J.J. Fate (an imaginary personification of Donald's bad "luck"), is released.

1958:

Disney's live-action feature The Light in the Forest, starring Fess Parker, James

MacArthur, and Jessica Tandy is released. The film centers around the struggles of a boy named

John Cameron Butler/True Son, who has been taken from his parents by Indians while young. It is based on a

the same name - plays its final performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City. Running since May 2006, the musical has played 35 previews

and 486 regular performances.

1877:

Actor Nigel De Brulier, the inspiration for the model of the Sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia, is born in Bristol, England.

"We thought we were always going to be 21 years old. We thought we would always be putting goldfish in the

bottled drinking water, balancing cups of water on the light fixtures, changing the labels on cans of sauerkraut

juice. We were 21 years old, Walt was 30, leading the pack. Working there was more fun than any job I could

ever imagine." -Ward Kimball

1776:

According to tradition, the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia

Pennsylvania is one of many bells rung to summon citizens

for the reading of the Declaration of Independence (which

had been adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4).

Today a replica of the Liberty Bell sits on display in Walt Disney World's Liberty

Square. The replica was cast for Walt Disney World in Annecy-le Vieux, France

by Fonderie Paccard, using the exact same mold as the original Liberty Bell.

(Paccard is best known in the U.S. for its participation in the Liberty Bell Savings

Bond Project. As part of the Marshall Plan of industrial assistance to create and maintain jobs in war-torn Europe,

the foundry cast 57 replicas of the Liberty Bell in 1950-51. Most of the bells were distributed, one each, to the then-48 U.S. states as tributes to their citizens' respective services in World War II.)

2008:

Tokyo Disneyland Hotel has its grand opening. The new Victorian-style hotel stands

in front of the main entrance of Tokyo Disneyland Park. The third Disney-brand hotel of the Tokyo Disney Resort, Tokyo Disneyland Hotel offers 700 guestrooms along with dining and shopping facilities.

His Disney voice credits include Santa Claus in the 2007 direct-to-DVD film Pooh's Super Sleuth Christmas Movie and King Salmoneus in an episode of Hercules: The Animated Series. (Fans of the HBO satirical

sitcom The Larry Sanders Show know Tambor for his role of Hank Kingsley.)

2009:

A groundbreaking ceremony takes place at Disney California Adventure park.

Disney Imagineering, digs up the first bit of ground that will become Cars Land. During the ceremony, Lasseter even

spray-paints an impromptu Lightning McQueen on the pavement!

2012:

Ernest Borgnine, an actor of television and film with a career

spanning more than six decades, passes away at age 95 in

California. He played the role of journalist Harry Booth in Disney's 1979 science

fiction film The Black Hole. (Currently the voice of Mermaid Man on the animated

series SpongeBob SquarePants, Borgnine's film credits include The Poseidon

Adventure, Ice Station Zebra, The Dirty Dozen, and Marty - for which he won an

Academy Award. Fans of classic TV will remember him as the star of McHale's Navy - a 1960s sitcom which featured

Disney Legend Tim Conway.)

July 08

In Memory Of

"Look, Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom."

2013:

Old Navy launches a new clothing line featuring one of Disney's most iconic characters - Mickey Mouse. Available in-store and online, the "Mickey Through the Decades" collection includes Mickey

Mouse and his friends in rarely seen art on vintage-style tees.

2019:

The longtime Epcot restaurant Liberty Inn, a staple of the American Adventure pavilion in the theme park's World Showcase, closes. Part of the opening day lineup for Epcot in 1982, Liberty Inn was attached to the main building that features the American Adventure attraction and the Voices of Liberty singing

group. It will be replaced with a new eatery that serves barbecue and craft beers.